Hi guys, Gosh it's gone chilly again as I'm writing this, I hope the sun returns soon,
to cheer myself up I altered this fabulous Plywood phone holder from
Calico Craft Parts
The holder fits my phone easily and even has space for the charging lead to go through while it's sat there, Lol
I have a small tutorial on how I got this look,
I glued the sections in place by placing the back section through the pre cut slot on the front as shown,
I then painted a fine layer of white Gesso over all the sections, when dry I took some benders with three colours of Distress oxides and randomly added colour to the sections, going over the other colour where it meets to blend it in, I used Blue Lagoon, Twisted Cirton and Fossilized Amber, next to stop the inks coming off I lightly sprayed the surfaces with a cheap hair spray, let dry,
I then stamped onto the sections, using Versafine Clair in Verdant, this went with the colour's I'd chosen but still showed,
As you can know it already has the back stand attached, so to make it easier to stamp and do the rest of the media on it I took a mixed media tub I had in my stash, (any tub will do as long as it's roughly the same height or a little bit higher as the back stand, but it needs to give a firm surface to be able to place your stamp on, (so the front surface is flat to work on)
This is the stamp pad with the ink I used to stamp onto the surfaces, I didnt add my stamp to an acrylic block so I could press my fingers on the back of the stamp to get it into smaller sections too, this gives a variety to the stamping too as some are more defined then others, (this adds to the effect) let this dry as the ink will remain wet for a while, you can use aheat tool lightly over the top, but be careful not to burn the plywood,
Next I took a star stencil with some Modelling paste, this I randomly spread through the stencil here and there, again some parts missed or were thinner layeres, I wanted this effect as it gives the quirky look and lets a bit of the colour show through,
Leave to dry naturally, if you use heat it could make the stencil paste bubble, I didn't want this as I wanted it kept flat,
I had stamped coloured and fussy out out the bird images, then adhered them onto the front over some of the stencilled stars as shown, again I kept these flat to the surface of the phone holder, I decided I wanted a little more stamping at this stage so using a smaller text stamp and Versafine Clair Nocturne ink to make it stand out a little more I randomly placed it here and there, again I used just my fingers for the stamping to add small sections,
I used another stamped bird facing the opposite way, placing it lower down on the holder, glued in the same way,
I fussy cut out a sentiment on a separate piece of card, then glued it in the middle again keeping it flat,
And there is my finished quirky themed phone stand,
Just the thing to brighten up a dull day!! lol
Happy Crafting!!
Hugs Liz xx
